Σιτομετρεῖν
to measure out grain, to measure out provisions
Translated by Ronald Allen15 Jul 2011Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to provide grain/provisions.1
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]sitome/trion ["measured grain-portion"], a grain-allowance.2
Polybius [writes]: "having allocated what grain he intended to meaasure out, Philip announced that whoever had no more than 30 days' worth of grain should have it registered with him."3
Also [sc. attested is another verb]sitopoiei=sqai ["to create food"] in Xenophon [meaning] to take provisioning. "[It is] necessary both to create food and to sleep."4.
Also [sc. attested is the noun]sitopompi/a ["grain-conveyance"].5
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]
Polybius [writes]: "having allocated what grain he intended to meaasure out, Philip announced that whoever had no more than 30 days' worth of grain should have it registered with him."3
Also [sc. attested is another verb]
Also [sc. attested is the noun]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σιτομετρεῖν· τὸ σῖτον παρέχειν. καὶ Σιτομέτριον, ἡ σιτοδοσία. Πολύβιος· ὁ δὲ Φίλιππος διαδοὺς ὅτι μέλλει σιτομετρεῖν, ἐκήρυξεν, ὅσοι μὴ πλεῖον ἔχουσι λʹ ἡμερῶν σῖτον, ἀπογράφεσθαι πρὸς αὐτόν. καὶ Σιτοποιεῖσθαι παρὰ Ξενοφῶντι τὸ τροφὴν λαμβάνειν. σιτοποιεῖσθαί τε ἀνάγκη καὶ κοιμᾶσθαι. καὶ Σιτοπομπία.
Betacode
*sitometrei=n: to\ si=ton pare/xein. kai\ *sitome/trion, h( sitodosi/a. *polu/bios: o( de\ *fi/lippos diadou\s o(/ti me/llei sitometrei=n, e)kh/rucen, o(/soi mh\ plei=on e)/xousi l# h(merw=n si=ton, a)pogra/fesqai pro\s au)to/n. kai\ *sitopoiei=sqai para\ *cenofw=nti to\ trofh\n lamba/nein. sitopoiei=sqai/ te a)na/gkh kai\ koima=sqai. kai\ *sitopompi/a.
Notes (5)
- The headword is the present active infinitive of the contract verb
sitometre/w , I deal out portions of grain. It is perhaps extracted here from the Polybius passage quoted below; see in any event LSJ s.v., showing (inter alia) that its earliest surviving attestations are in that author. - 1The glossing verb form is the present infinitive active of
pare/xw , I hand over, furnish, provide, supply; see generally LSJ s.v. ↩ - 2This neuter noun (
sito/metron in ms A) occurs most famously in the New Testament (Luke 12.42), in connection with the parable of the sower. ↩ - 3Polybius fr. 75 Büttner-Wobst (unplaced). ↩
- 4An approximation of Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.36 (web address 1); see de Boor, p. 35. ↩
- 5See generally LSJ s.v.; instances in Demosthenes and elsewhere. ↩
References
C. de Boor, 'Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung II,' Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 23, 1914-1919, pp. 1-127
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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- Translated — Ronald Allen